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Here are a few of the smaller Saturn-related stories from my metaphorical reporter’s notebook from this week. Spanish translation of Nanatsu shows signs of life The person translating Nanatsu Kaze…
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The Fenrir ODE is a great way to play your Saturn in 2023, between its relative ease of installation and the convenience of having access to your entire library of…
Best Of Saturn
April 1997 saw the Japan-only release of Jaleco’s Fantastep, a 3D adventure game featuring 2D sprites. Heavy on the language barrier, the adventure is more of a point-and-click affair and…
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The developer of the MiSTer FPGA’s Saturn core has saved the day with his latest update — it adds the ability to save progress in games, a long-requested feature among…
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Last week brought a major update for the Sega Saturn FILM Muxer, originally released last November, by homebrew developer TrekkiesUnite118. Known for his pursuit of audio and video quality in…
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It’s been a busy news week for the Saturn scene, so let’s take a look at a few of the odds and ends from the last several days. Main MiSTer…
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Radiant Silvergun is coming soon to the PC according to a store page that appeared on Steam last night. No release date is listed on the Steam page, but Gematsu…
Best Of Saturn
Based on a manga (as so many Japanese Saturn titles are), Crows: The Battle Action for Segasaturn is a very late 1997 Japan-only delight. A beat-em-up featuring super-deformed characters, it…
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Owners of the original 20-pin model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator can rejoice — a new batch of SaturnSwitchers will go on sale later today. The creator of the…
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From updates on new peripheral hardware and a fan translation to games we’ve reported on before coming to new platforms, we’ve got a solid slate of news items in the…
Best Of Saturn
Technosoft’s awesome ThunderForce series arrives to 32-bit gaming, with the fifth installment featuring all-new 3D visuals coupled with traditional 2D gameplay. Master your forward and rear shots and take advantage…
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You must play Sega Saturn — or as you might say in Spanish, ¡debe jugar a Sega Saturn! Especially now, with a couple of high-profile Spanish fan translations of Saturn…
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In news that’s tangentially related to the Saturn, the latest movie in the Slam Dunk franchise is coming to U.S. theaters next week after it debuted to critical acclaim and…
Best Of Saturn
Dating back to 1978 (!), Space Invaders is a simple game of timing as you try to shoot down a horde of invading aliens that are descending ever closer. The…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Original Recording Date: Wednesday, August, 26, 2020
In this interview we’re joined by singer TJ Davis, or as you may well know her, the vocalist behind the iconic Sonic R soundtrack. From tracks such as Super Sonic Racing, which has appeared in seve…
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Amidst Shiro’s continuing coverage of the leaked Sega Fiscal Year 1997 brand documents and all of the breaking news last week, there are a few smaller stories to catch up…
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A fan-made English patch for the Saturn version of first-person roguelike RPG Baroque is now available, coming less than two months after developer Plissken announced he was working on it….
Best Of Saturn
Developed by Technosoft and released in Japan in the summer of 1995, Fantastic Pinball Kyuutenkai is an anime-based pinball adventure. Select one of three heroes of Flipperland and play pinball…
Editorial
Over the years, the game industry has gotten much better about saving and archiving materials and data for future reference. However, that wasn’t always the case, with many pieces of…
Best Of Saturn
World War 2 has just ended, but the belligerents must unite against a mysterious new foe known only as C.A.D.Y. Strikers 1945 is the first of the series, receiving a…
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A modder has hacked the PC version of Nights into Dreams to increase its framerate and improve its controls — just in time for the 27th anniversary of the original…
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Early on the morning of July 3, 2023 an Internet Archive contributor by the name GoldenDreamcast posted an enormous information dump consisting of 272 pages of previously classified internal documents…
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MiSTer FPGA owners are rejoicing today after a new update to the hardware emulator’s Saturn core was uploaded to the Internet. Developer Sergiy Dvodnenko, aka SRG320, published new code today…
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You must play Sega Saturn, as we say here at Shiro, and that means by any method available. But one method we haven’t covered so far has been emulation on…
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Arjak released an update to his ongoing project to localize J.B. Harold Blue Chicago Blues into English, making available a new patch that translates about half of the game. The…
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So you’re saying there’s a chance? That might be Saturn fans’ reaction after Sonic Team creative officer Takashi Iizuka told Video Games Chronicle that entries in the team’s legacy titles…
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Croc — one of the only 3D platformers to grace the Saturn library — is coming to modern platforms, according to one of its original executive producers. Jez San said…
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We’ve been teasing and showing off the Stellar Assault SS Dub for a while now, and as of today, can proudly announce and present the Stellar Assault SS Dub Patch,…
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Things sure do move FAST in the Saturn scene… It was just a couple days ago (May 2, 2023) that Team SHIRO!s Knight0fDragon began work on an English Translation Patch…
Editorial
Growing up in the 90’s was a blast! We witnessed the return of video games from a dire market crash and saw them flourish and go on to break the 3D barrier and beyond. It was a very exciting time in video game history, and I have many stories and mem…
Best Of Saturn
Many of the Saturn’s best games remain locked away in Japan… until they receive the fan translation treatment! Bulk Slash is the hybrid arcade action mech dating simulator you never…
SHIRO! PODCAST
We’re BACK!! We here at SHIRO! bring you the many worlds of SEGA Saturn in a bunch of different ways. Whether you tune in every Friday for The SHIRO! Show,…
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Sky Target is an arcade Model 2 experience with a Saturn port released in the first half of 1997. Converted by Appaloosa (Ecco series), the title is like a slow…
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SaturnDave is joined by James the “SegaHolic” & Dan the “MegaDriver” of The SEGAGuys to look back on being a Saturn in the United Kingdom and reflect on both Saturn’s…
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On Saturday, February 11th, 2023, Dr. Emerald Nova announced the final standings for the SEGA Saturn 28th Anniversary Game Competition hosted by SegaXtreme. For a nice overview of all contest…